The First Road Bread Drawing
- Cierra
- Dec 31, 2025
- 2 min read
The first Road Bread drawing happened while I was working overnight shifts taking care of my grandparents. There was a lot of quiet time. Around then, my friend Audrey gave me her extra iPad. I had been working as a graphic designer for a few years, but I hadn’t really explored illustration. Once I had the iPad, it became clear how much it could expand what I was able to do. I wanted to try it out, but I didn’t know what to draw.
Eventually, the idea came to draw small baguettes inside a cigarette box. I’m not sure why that idea landed, but it felt simple and funny enough to work on.
I spent around ten hours drawing it in Adobe Fresco. Most of that time was just learning, figuring out the tools, zooming in too far, undoing things repeatedly. I wasn’t thinking about products or merch. I was just trying to see what I could make.
When I finished, I sent the drawing to my friend Tori. She immediately said she wanted it on a shirt. I joked that this was exactly the kind of thing Road Bread—the fake bakery name I came up with—would make.
Eventually, I looked into print on demand, mostly out of curiosity. That drawing wasn’t meant to start anything. It was just an experiment with a new tool during a period of my life that was slow and quiet. But once it existed, it led to more drawings. Then more ideas. The bread puns kept coming.
Road Bread started as a joke and became a creative outlet. That first drawing is still the point everything else traces back to.